Question

Answer the following question in detail.

Write the information about the Quit India movement of 1942.

Answer 1

1. The executive council of the Indian National Congress passed a resolution at Wardha that the British should quit India. This resolution was to receive final approval in the session at Mumbai.
2. On 7th August 1942 the session of Indian National Congress began on the Gowalia Tank Ground in Mumbai. Maulana Abul Kalam Azad was the President of this session.
3. On 8th August, in this session Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru presented the resolution of ‘Quit India’ and it was approved with great majority. It was demanded that the British should immediately leave India. In this session it was also decided that the ‘Quit India’ movement should be taken forward with a non-violent apporoch under Mahatma Gandhiji’s leadership.
4. Mahatma Gandhi appealed to all Indians saying, “This movement is not of the Indian National Congress, but of all Indians. Every Indian man and woman should know in their mind that they are free citizens from this very moment and they should prepare themselves to fight”.
5. The British government tried to crush the ‘Quit India’ movement before it started. Before the day of 9th August could see sunlight, all prominent leaders like Gandhiji, Maulana Azad, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, Vallabhbhai Patel were arrested.
6. By the end of 1942 this movement supported by common people took a different turn. Its leadership was assumed by the young socialist leaders.